Nan Lurie 1910 1985 Original Signed Mixed Media Drawing Three Figures WPA Artist

An original signed work by the American printmaker Nan Lurie (1910-1985): three seated figures drawn in pen and ink with washes of blue and grey, on paper laid within a painted blue border. Signed Nan Lurie lower right.

Born in Odessa and trained in New York, Lurie worked for the Federal Art Project of the WPA in the late 1930s, producing lithographs of city life that are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney.

Presented in an aluminium frame with a cream mount, behind glass. Overall size approx 42 x 50 cm.

Condition: good. Please see all photographs. Further works by Lurie from the same source are listed separately.